South Park DVDs are Edited!
My wife Laura needed a surprise to brighten her day. I figured I’d pick up some funny DVDs to watch. I brought home The Simpsons Movie and South Park The Hits: Volume 1. The Simpsons movie is great, even watching it the second time. But imagine my surprise to find that all of the episodes on the South Park DVD were edited!
This shouldn’t have happened to me. After all, I stood in the store and read the back of the box, printed with warnings about parental themes, explicit language, adult situations, all that jazz. If those things are listed on the back of the box, then I should see those things in the video. But if you edit the content and bleep all that stuff out, then these warnings no longer apply. Placing such a warning on a product is misleading. You’re promising me that I’ll finally hear Cartman say “Fuck you, Bebe!”, just like I’ve always wanted. Promising those things and then not delivering them is tantamount to a scam.
I was able to exchange the DVD even though we opened it. The store clerk I spoke to agreed: DVDs for sale shouldn’t be edited. And if they are, there should be an option to restore the edited content, like an alternate audio track.
I don’t know if the other South Park DVDs are edited, and I don’t care. Why would I take the chance of getting ripped off again? Why would I pay to watch episodes exactly as they appear on TV? Why not just watch TV? I exchanged the one I bought for the Twin Peaks Gold Box, and paid the difference. At least I know what I’m getting.
November 30, 2008
Actually the Twin Peaks Gold Box is also edited.
November 30, 2008
Oh, I didn’t notice. Can you list what’s missing?